SBP reserves fall $540m in a week

MG News | March 27, 2025 at 04:42 PM GMT+05:00

0:00

March 27, 2025 (MLN): The foreign exchange reserves held by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) decreased by $540 million or 4.84% WoW to $10.61 billion during the week ended on March 21, 2025, data released by the State Bank of Pakistan showed on Thursday.

Similarly, the country's total reserves decreased by $464.8m or 2.90% WoW to $15.55bn.

The reserves held by commercial banks rose by $75.2m or 1.54% WoW to $4.94bn.

In the current fiscal year, SBP-held reserves have increased by $1.22bn or 12.96%.

Meanwhile, the current calendar year has seen a decrease of $1.1bn or -9.42%.

**Summary of Holding and Weekly Change**
Foreign reserves held by	March 21, 2025	March 14, 2025	Change	% Change
State Bank of Pakistan	10,606.8	11,146.8	-540.0	-4.84%
Net Foreign Reserves Held by Banks	4,944.2	4,869.0	75.2	1.54%
Total Liquid Foreign Reserves	15,551.0	16,015.8	-464.8	-2.90%

Amount in USD Million

Copyright Mettis Link News

Related News

Pakistan, China boost security cooperation

MG Morning Breeze: Updates to Skim before Market

SECP trains SOE, Privatization Teams on restructuring rules

Name	Price/Vol	%Chg/NChg
KSE100	161,865.87 65.77M	0.11% 178.69
ALLSHR	98,223.27 468.98M	0.15% 148.00
KSE30	48,913.41 19.82M	-0.08% -37.57
KMI30	231,041.43 23.20M	0.14% 317.01
KMIALLSHR	63,854.73 196.33M	0.16% 104.03
BKTi	44,349.71 5.08M	-0.06% -27.84
OGTi	31,117.30 1.40M	-0.02% -6.66

Symbol	Bid/Ask	High/Low

Name	Last	High/Low	Chg/%Chg
BITCOIN FUTURES	90,015.00	92,305.00 89,325.00	-1955.00 -2.13%
BRENT CRUDE	63.76	64.02 63.71	-0.44 -0.69%
RICHARDS BAY COAL MONTHLY	85.75	85.75 85.75	0.50 0.59%
ROTTERDAM COAL MONTHLY	96.45	0.00 0.00	0.30 0.31%
USD RBD PALM OLEIN	1,082.50	1,082.50 1,082.50	0.00 0.00%
CRUDE OIL - WTI	59.43	59.81 59.37	-0.48 -0.80%
SUGAR #11 WORLD	14.75	14.94 14.65	-0.21 -1.40%